Personal information of almost 900 people was given to a public-housing resident [in Virginia] who requested a list of those who had been banned from Hampton Redevelopment and Housing Authority property. Hampton police and the housing authority maintain a list of people who have been banned by police from Section 8 and public-housing property in…
Category: Exposure
Box of personal information found in Executive Inn Rivermont
With Owensboro’s Executive Inn Rivermont about to be demolished, it has been open for the past month for people to walk through as the city tries to sell the contents. But the Messenger-Inquirer reports a group of women looking at items for sale stumbled on a box that contained employee records, including Social Security numbers…
Details of 10,000 MS workers among stolen data
Last week, this site reported on a story from Times Online about the new Lucid Intelligence database of identity details that had been found up for sale by cybercriminals. The database consists of 120 million records on 40 million people worldwide, compiled by identity theft expert Colin Holder and others. Users can conduct a free…
Anger over Internet job blunder
A couple have spoken of their anger after confidential job application details were published on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s website by mistake. […] The list has been taken down and measures put in place to stop the mistake from happening again. Mr Curtis added: “We have worked with, and taken advice from, the Information…
Personal info found outside DPS building
Hundreds of documents containing names, birth dates, driver’s license numbers and some Social Security numbers were found Wednesday littering the driveway of Galveston’s vacant Department of Public Safety office. Until contacted by The Daily News, the state agency was unaware of the office cleaning mishap, which occurred sometime after Hurricane Ike’s Sept. 13 landfall flooded…
Oh look, a dumpster! Let’s throw the papers here…
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a pastor found hundreds of documents with personal information in a dumpster out behind his church. The paperwork included Social Security numbers, bank accounts and credit histories. The documents came from a home improvement company, the Home Solution Pros. Eyewitness News found the business has two office listings. Read more on…